Hoping to go Padstow to Falmouth tomorrow

[Seastoke]

Anything we should look out for.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Big sticky out rocks and not so sticky out rocks.

 

[sfellows]

Cornwall.

 

[Wansworth]

Mostly turn right….

 

[vyv_cox]

Main decision is inside or outside at Lands End. If quiet the barely covered rocks are visible but if choppy they are far less so.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Mostly turn right….

It's a long time since you sailed the North Devon and Cornish coasts I take it.

 

[Wansworth]

Right hand down going out of Falmouth and right going round lands end and right into Padstow.

 

[WoodyP]

Via the A39?
About one and a half hours.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Right hand down going out of Falmouth and right going round lands end and right into Padstow.

He's going the other way?

 

[Wansworth]

6

He's going the other way?

damm?

 

[sfellows]

Mostly turn right….

I'm glad you aren't my Navigator

 

[Farmer Piles]

Cornwall.

Cornwall is alright, it's the locals you have to look out for. I know, I am one!!

 

[R.Ems]

Main decision is inside or outside at Lands End. If quiet the barely covered rocks are visible but if choppy they are far less so.

Useful to know, I have been around it a few times, many years ago as crew not skipper, and some skippers gave it all a wide berth while others scraped quite close to the rocks using the inner passages.
I have often wondered about the reasons for making for that choice.
Also, are the rocks easier to miss, going one way rather than the other?

 

[Skylark]

Assuming a Mobo, hence good weather, I’d go “inside” around Lands End using radar parallel indexing to maintain distance-off. You’ll be fine.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Assuming a Mobo, hence good weather, I’d go “inside” around Lands End using radar parallel indexing to maintain distance-off. You’ll be fine.

I don't think Seastoke will understand any of that.

 

[vyv_cox]

Useful to know, I have been around it a few times, many years ago as crew not skipper, and some skippers gave it all a wide berth while others scraped quite close to the rocks using the inner passages.
I have often wondered about the reasons for making for that choice.
Also, are the rocks easier to miss, going one way rather than the other?

Swells break over the two rocks, Shark's Fin and Kettle's Bottom, in choppy conditions. These days with electronic aids they are quite easily avoided but in the 1990s I have gone around Longships going south to avoid them. I have found them more easily seen going north and have never gone outside in that direction.

 

[Seastoke]

I might use the main sail down to the head then swop to the spinnaker.

 

[Boathook]

I might use the main sail down to the head then swop to the spinnaker.

Have a chat with PaulRainbow. He's learning about the same type of sails !

 

[wingcommander]

Mostly turn right….

Not the shortest route, but suppose he'd eventually arrive

 

[Wansworth]

Not the shortest route, but suppose he'd eventually arrive

Clockwise!